Kool-Aid's Music Video

This week was quite eventful. I finally met up with Kellz and we finally shot a video together. We then learned that an up and coming artist named Kool-Aid was interested in making a music video for himself just to see how it would turn out and was more than happy to be our guinea pig.

All three of us met up later on during the week to find areas that looked good enough to shoot. When we found one, we then decided to have a theme for the video. We chose to have him in the desert at first then in a forest in an army uniform. In the middle of shooting my camera ran out of battery juice, so we had to run and find a place to charge it back up to get a bit more shots in. We found a nearby apartment building and as someone was coming out I jolted in, found and outlet and put that bad boy in for about 10 minutes because the time we had was short. After that was finished, I bolted back to the scene and we continued from there and continued shooting until it died again. The shooting took only about two hours to do because we all had places to be at certain times, so we didn't get a lot of footage to play with for editing, but we did what we could.

After shooting, we went back to Kellz editing room and began editing, but unfotunately we ran out of time. But I didn't leave empty handed. I managed to sneak a picture on my phone of what we were doing. You guys can thank me later. :). Next week I should be meeting back with Kellz and we should have this thing finished. See you next week.

Beginning My Journey To Marketing...

Here's the setup I got so far.

Today's blog is about the beginnings of me learning to shoot
film. I'm doing this because I am currently enrolled in the Business Marketing
program at Humber College. As every marketer should know, the marketing mix
consists of 4 elements. Those 4 elements are Price, Product, Place, and
Promotion. Now, the last one, promotion, is the one aspect of the mix that I
want to concentrate on for now. I would like to learn and acquire the ability
to shoot and edit my own videos, and to learn how to take good photos so I can
make my own advertisements so that I can also provide these services that require
these skills when I begin my career after college. The first thing I did was
research how to take good pictures, and which camera would be a good one to
take them. The camera that came up a lot was the Canon EOS 7D. People were
saying that its one of the best cameras and that they are also used to shoot
commercials. Now the key word "commercials" came up and now I got my
target. So I saved up, and went out and got me a 7D. Next I needed a tripod to
better stabilize my shots. Luckily, there was one on sale over at The Source,
so I picked that up. Now I have my camera and my tripod, I learned some of the
major functions of the camera through Youtube and the manual, and now I'm ready
to get shooting some videos, but all I need is an idea on what to shoot and
lessons on how to shoot good videos. I'm going to call my friend, Kellz, who
has his own production company going called Don Entertainment, and ask him if
he would be willing to coach me and tag along on my journey to becoming a
better marketer by teaching me what goes into film making and editing.
Hopefully I get the answer I'm looking for. If I have professional help, it
would be a lot easier to learn and refine my video making skills. Or in other
words, sharpen my pixels... Aahh? Aahh? See what I did there? I put the title
in the... Ahh forget it. Anyways, let's keep our fingers crossed.